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I have a doubt about my partioned disc, i ve took a pic of the disc management so i can show.

I have vista installed in the 85gb partition and ubuntu in the 56gb one. The 6,94GB part is a recovery utility from hp.

What I would like to know is, if i can delete this highlighted 2gb partition who is not NTFS and do not apear on Ubuntu managers also, so I can use it as backup partition for important documents.

Or would it be really stupid, being it used as container for GRUB? I'm a bit confused since all of them are "Primary Partitions" and i think GRUB is in the mbr part (thus in the begining of the disc, not in its middle)

Won't do anything stupid before asking the pros, please give me an advise.

BTW, how can I shrink ubuntu partition? Does ubuntu have an built in utility just as Vista?

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Hi leoszt.
I think the 2 GB partition is your swap partition that Ubuntu uses for hibernation and other purposes, so you probably don't want to get rid of it. You can shrink your Ubuntu partition using Gparted on the LiveCD, located at System>Administration>Partition Editor while booted from it.

Cheers,

Jake

Last edited: Mar 11, 2009

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Likely its a utility partition from HP, but if you want to use it, right-click on it and format. It doesn't appear to be the partition the computer is booted from. Personally I don't see any use in it as 2gb will run out quite quickly depending on the amount of files you're backing up. I would recommend getting a cheap external usb drive (100gb or so for starters) to use for this purpose. It won't do you any good if your main hard drive fails and your only backups were also located on there.

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Did you actually boot *from* the LiveCD, and look in that location? :brows: Or did you just look in that location from within Ubuntu itself? Assuming you downloaded the ISO from the official Ubuntu download site then Gparted should indeed be already included in the CD.

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Unless the package has been installed it won't show in the menu. No doubt its included on the CD, but it may not be installed and ready to use out of the box. Had to manually install it before I could use on my last Ubuntu installation. With GParted live disc though it should be installed even in the live disc session.

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Unless the package has been installed it won't show in the menu. No doubt its included on the CD, but it may not be installed and ready to use out of the box. Had to manually install it before I could use on my last Ubuntu installation. With GParted live disc though it should be installed even in the live disc session.

Well, yeah...that's what I meant. Its installed in the live disc session, and included on the disk, but it doesn't get installed *on your computer* automatically when you install Ubuntu...if you want it in there, you would have to install it later (though personally i believe it is better to use Gparted from the CD, and not from within an OS...but again, that's just me).

Did you navigate to the "System" menu at the top, while in the live session, and then click on "Administration" to view that sub-menu, and look to see if you see "Partition Editor"? That is what I meant when I said "System>Administration>Partition Editor"...

Last edited: Mar 15, 2009

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Well, yeah...that's what I meant. Its installed in the live disc session, and included on the disk, but it doesn't get installed *on your computer* automatically when you install Ubuntu...if you want it in there, you would have to install it later (though personally i believe it is better to use Gparted from the CD, and not from within an OS...but again, that's just me).

Addendum:

Did you navigate to the "System" menu at the top, while in the live session, and then click on "Administration" to view that sub-menu, and look to see if you see "Partition Editor"? That is what I meant when I said "System>Administration>Partition Editor"...

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What missing libraries? You need to be more specific...
You should be able to install whatever dependencies that are not installed by either using Synaptic or using "sudo apt-get install <name of package>" in the Terminal.

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